The Bozeman weekly chronicle., 1887-05-04
THINGS TERRITORIAL.

The total city registry at Butte was
1850.
The town of Fort Benton will be sup
piled with water works this season.
1t is reported that Corvallis, Missoula
county, is to have temperance paper.
~. Beilenberg estimates Montana's
cattle loss the past winter at twenty-five
per cent.
Twenty-one cars of steel rails for the
Butte and Helena extension arrived in
Butte last week;
II. A. Fry young man at Ft. Benton
has struck it rich by drawing $4,000 in
Louisiana lottery.
DR.. A. E. Bovet, of Butte, has been
appointed deputy territorial veterinarian
for the west side.
The Montana Churchman enters up
on the fifth year of its publication with
the April number.
Walter M. O'Dwyer, an eastern Jour
nalist, is to assume editorial charge ,of
tiC oicdt Tdllb
The mother of D. G. Mcmillan of the
Montana college, died on the eth. The
remains will be taken to Connelsvflle
Illinois, for interment.
Another military company for Butte is
to be formed. 1t is to be called the FIRST
Montana Rifles, and the movement mas
Treasurer Kessler and Judge Lnher at
its head.
In Butte John Rowan, a mining man
got into an alteration with Joseph
Bessiere. Rowan opened fire, one shot
taking effect in the abdomen, and the
case is now critical.
The pIacers on the upper Big Hole
river are to be worked for all they are
worth during the coming summer.
Water is plenty and modern mining
machinery has been secured.
The Montana Union depot at Deer
Lodge is to be removed to point in the
town and away from the isolated and
inconvenient position it now occupies.
The road runs right through town to
depot on the outside.
A petition signed by a good many
Butte people was forwarded to Governor
West, of Utah, asking him to pardon
Dune Macdonald, who has been senten-
ced to thirty days at Salt Lake for en-
gaging in a prize-fght.
The engineers of the Montana Union
have completed the work they went
down to do in Silver Bow canyono The
new route will pass through Gsegson
Springs and along the foothills into
Anaconda cutting off Stuart about half
mile.
Earl E. Warren committed suiciJ ! on
Saturday night at Anaconda by liking
lau1anum. He was brother of Charles
S. Warren of Butte, and of Mace Warren
of Helena. Some trouble regard ing a
divorced wife who lived at An4onda
seems to have been the motive II the
suicide. SY
Governor Leslie has issued I tdon
for Jeremiah Cokely, who was sem esSced
at the district court, held in Mile4 CITY
in 1888, to seven years imprisonmfat in
the territory penitentiary, for the hitting
Of Patrick Dwyer in the section tclSuse
in Killings, on Christmas eve, 1885
1t is said that in 1885 the Nobefern
Pacific Killed 200 of neat cattlel fong
the line of its road, of which two{ sirds
were in Montana. This does nj in
Guide horses or sheep. Of the litter
246 were killed in one bunch es"S in
the winter, huddled in a cut bel geen
Livingston and Big Timber. R
The Missoula Times says the oute
to be selected by the Manitoba, N.oad
will be from Sun River west tn |. ough
Cadets pass, down the Big Blal foot
to Missoula, crossing the Northern Pa
cific there and thence following ilown
the Missoula River, up the st. regis
and penetrating the best of the lCeur
d'Alene country;
Sixty-two warrants aggregatlng up-
wards OF S4OO, were issued to day byTer.
ritorial Auditor Sullivan in favor of
gopher catchers." These warrants are
largely in liquidation of Gallatin county
claimants, who seem to have struck
lucrative industry and are strictly ad-
dressing themselves to business. Auditor
Sullivan states that the Territorial string
box threatens soon to go broke should
the ground squirrel raid keep up its lick
much longer.-Herald.
The house of Deputy U. S. Marshal
James Ferguson burned in Billings early
on last Wednesday. Mrs. Ferguson was
very ill, and had to be carried out.of the
blazing building to seek security with a
neighbor. None of the occupants saved
anything but their night clothes. The
fire originated from lamp that was left
burning in the sick room. The house
was valued at $1,000, the contents at
about $500. On the property was
policy for 81 200 in the Springfield Fire
and Marine.
No less than six thousand two hundred
and ninsty.seven ground sqirrels were
certified up to Territorial Auditor .Sulli-
van, April 25th, by the Judge of Probate
Of Gallatin, as a portion of the animal
slaughter of that county calling for pay,
ment under the amended bounty law.
Included in the same list are also 240
prairie dogs, 20 cayotes, 16 wolves and
one mountoin lion-the full catch amoun-
ting to bounty aggregate of S4O6S5.
The agricultural products of Gallatin are
as nothing, comparatively speaking, to
the squirrel crop in the course of harvest
ing in the county.-Herald.
Memorial Day.